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Monday, March 20, 2017

Practice of Christian Mortification – Part 2 (of 2)

Practice of Christian Mortification

– Part 2 (of 2)

Mortifications to practice in our exterior actions

1 — You ought to show the greatest exactitude in observing all the
points of your rule of life, obeying them without delay, remembering
Saint John Berchmans, who said: “Penance for me is to lead the common
life”; “To have the highest regard for the smallest things, such is my
motto”; “Rather die than break a single rule.”

2 —In the exercise of your duties of state, try to be
well-pleased with whatever happens to be most unpleasant or boring for
you, recalling again here the words of Saint Francis: “I am never better
than when I am not well.”
3 — Never give one moment over to sloth: from morning until night keep busy without respite.
4 — If your life is, at least partly, spent in study, apply to
yourself this advice from Saint Thomas Aquinas to his pupils: “Do not be
content to take in superficially what you read and hear, but endeavour
to go into it deeply and to fathom the whole sense of it. Never remain
in doubt about what you could know with certainty. Work with a holy
eagerness to enrich your mind; arrange and classify in your memory all
the knowledge you are able to acquire. On the other hand, do not seek
to penetrate mysteries which are beyond your intelligence.”
5 — Devote yourself solely to your present occupation, without
looking back on what went before or anticipating in thought what will
follow. Say with Saint Francis: “While I am doing this I am not obliged
to do anything else”; “let us make haste very calmly; all in good
time.”
6 — Be modest in your bearing. Nothing was so perfect as Saint
Francis’s deportment; he always kept his head straight, avoiding alike
the inconstancy which turns it in all directions, the negligence which
lets it droop forward and the proud and haughty disposition which throws
it back. His countenance was always peaceful, free from all annoyance,
always cheerful, serene and open; without however any merriment or
indiscreet humour, without loud, immoderate or too frequent laughter.
He was as composed when alone as in a large gathering. He did not
cross his legs, never supported his head on his elbow. When he prayed
he was motionless as a statue. When nature suggested to him he should
relax, he did not listen.
7 — Regard cleanliness and order as a virtue, uncleanness and
untidyness as a vice; do not have dirty, stained or torn clothes. On the
other hand, regard luxury and worldliness as a greater vice still. Make
sure that, on seeing your way of dressing, nobody calls it “slovenly”
or “elegant”, but that everybody is bound to think it “decent”.

Mortifications to practice in our relations with our neighbour

1 — Bear with your neighbour’s defects; defects of education, of
mind, of character. Bear with everything about him which irritates you:
his gait, his posture, tone of voice, accent, or whatever.
2 — Bear with everything in everybody and endure it to the end
and in a Christian spirit. Never with that proud patience which makes
one say: “What have I to do with so and so? How does what he says affect
me? What need have I for the affection, the kindness or even the
politeness of any creature at all and of that person in particular?”
Nothing accords less with the will of God than this haughty unconcern,
this scornful indifference; it is worse, indeed, than impatience.
3 — Are you tempted to be angry? For the love of Jesus, be meek.
To avenge yourself? Return good for evil; it is said the great
secret of touching Saint Teresa’s heart was to do her a bad turn.
To look sourly at someone? Smile at him with good nature.
To avoid meeting him? Seek him out willingly.
To talk badly of him? Talk well of him.
To speak harshly to him? Speak very gently, warmly, to him.
4 — Love to give praise to your companions, especially those you are naturally most inclined to envy.
5 — Do not be witty at the expense of charity.
6 — If somebody in your presence should take the liberty of
making remarks which are rather improper, or if someone should hold
conversations likely to injure his neighbour’s reputation, you may
sometimes rebuke the speaker gently, but more often it will be better to
divert the conversation skillfully, or indicate by a gesture of sorrow
or of deliberate inattention that what is said displeases you.
7 — It costs you an effort to render a small service: offer to do it. You will have twice the merit.
8 — Avoid with horror posing as a victim in your own eyes or
those of others. Far be it from you to exaggerate your burdens; strive
to find them light; they are so, in reality, much more often than it
seems; they would be so always if you were more virtuous.

Conclusion

In general, know how to refuse to nature what she asks of you unnecessarily.
Know how to make her give what she refuses you for no reason. Your progress in virtue, says the author of The Imitation of Christ, will be in proportion to the violence that you succeed in doing to yourself.
“It is necessary to die,” said the saintly Bishop of Geneva, “it
is necessary to die in order that God may live in us, for it is
impossible to achieve the union of the soul with God by any means other
than by mortification. These words ‘it is necessary to die’ are hard,
but they will be followed by a great sweetness, because one dies to
oneself for no other reason than to be united to God by that death.”
Would to God we had the right to apply to ourselves these
beautiful words of Saint Paul to the Corinthians: “In all things we
suffer tribulation… Always bearing about in our body the death of Jesus,
that the life also of Jesus may be made manifest in our bodies.” (II
Cor 4:8-10)

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Go forth confidently then, you knights, and repel the foes of the cross of Christ with a stalwart heart. Know that neither death nor life can separate you from the love of God which is in Jesus Christ, and in every peril repeat, "Whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's." What a glory to return in victory from such a battle! How blessed to die there as a martyr! Rejoice, brave athlete, if you live and conquer in the Lord; but glory and exult even more if you die and join your Lord. Life indeed is a fruitful thing and victory is glorious, but a holy death is more important than either. If they are blessed who die in the Lord, how much more are they who die for the Lord!

How secure, I say, is life when death is anticipated without fear; or rather when it is desired with feeling and embraced with reverence! How holy and secure this knighthood and how entirely free of the double risk run by those men who fight not for Christ! Whenever you go forth, O worldly warrior, you must fear lest the bodily death of your foe should mean your own spiritual death, or lest perhaps your body and soul together should be slain by him.

Indeed, danger or victory for a Christian depends on the dispositions of his heart and not on the fortunes of war. If he fights for a good reason, the issue of his fight can never be evil; and likewise the results can never be considered good if the reason were evil and the intentions perverse. If you happen to be killed while you are seeking only to kill another, you die a murderer. If you succeed, and by your will to overcome and to conquer you perchance kill a man, you live a murderer. Now it will not do to be a murderer, living or dead, victorious or vanquished. What an unhappy victory--to have conquered a man while yielding to vice, and to indulge in an empty glory at his fall when wrath and pride have gotten the better of you!

But what of those who kill neither in the heat of revenge nor in the swelling of pride, but simply in order to save themselves? Even this sort of victory I would not call good, since bodily death is really a lesser evil than spiritual death. The soul need not die when the body does. No, it is the soul which sins that shall die.

The knight of Christ, I say, may strike with confidence and die yet more confidently, for he serves Christ when he strikes, and serves himself when he falls. Neither does he bear the sword in vain, for he is God's minister, for the punishment of evildoers and for the praise of the good. If he kills an evildoer, he is not a mankiller, but, if I may so put it, a killer of evil. He is evidently the avenger of Christ towards evildoers and he is rightly considered a defender of Christians. Should he be killed himself, we know that he has not perished, but has come safely into port.

Once he finds himself in the thick of battle, this knight sets aside his previous gentleness, as if to say, "Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord; am I not disgusted with your enemies?" These men at once fall violently upon the foe, regarding them as so many sheep. No matter how outnumbered they are, they never regard these as fierce barbarians or as awe-inspiring hordes. Nor do they presume on their own strength, but trust in the Lord of armies to grant them the victory.

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